Poll: Close to 70 percent of Americans not confident Obama's plan will defeat ISIS

Poll: Close to 70 percent of Americans not confident Obama's plan will defeat ISIS
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Almost 70 percent of Americans surveyed say they are not confident that the United States will attain its goal of defeating ISIS, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll released Sunday.

NBC News noted that the poll was conducted before video emerged Saturday of the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.